'Angry' Dantonio refuses to walk away from Michigan State's scandal

The investigation into three previously unnamed Michigan State football players came to a head Tuesday, as it was revealed that Donnie Corley, Josh King, and Demetric Vance were the individuals charged with criminal sexual conduct in January following an on-campus incident.

On that front, Spartans head coach Mark Dantonio is angry. And he has every right to be, as the program that he's in charge of keeping on the straight and narrow is being - as he calls it - "painted with a brush" in a negative way by a select few.

Rather than wait for the verdicts in the three impending trials, Dantonio announced during a press conference Tuesday that all three players have been dismissed from the program, as relayed by CBS Detroit.

"The high standards I have established for this program will not change. The values that we teach to everyone in this program will be enforced," he told reporters.

Dantonio also said his players should have known better, based on what they've been taught since joining the program.

"There's been a numerous amount of education thrown at our players, especially the freshman group, from the time that they've gotten here," Dantonio said. "The education, I felt, was there and they compromised themselves by getting involved in such a situation ... From my perspective, the morals were not where they needed to be."

“I’m angry,” he added. “I don’t want to say betrayed; I’m angry. I feel like the education was there, I feel like I talk about the sense of responsibility that our players have, not to be a good football player but to be a good person, to do their very best.

“I didn’t even want to talk about football for the last six months because of this situation. And we had refrained from doing that because of the seriousness of this.”

It would be easy for Dantonio to walk away at this point, but the coach said he's not interested in taking the easy way out.

“No. I don’t think you walk away from problems," Dantonio said. "I think that, again as I said earlier in my time here, you’re hired here to handle the problems. That’s why you’re hired, to do what you do.”